CCTV-14 is a Chinese

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

television channel that was launched on 28 December 2003 and is owned by the

China Central Television China Central Television (CCTV) is the State media, national television broadcaster of China, established in 1958. CCTV is operated by the National Radio and Television Administration which reports directly to the Publicity Department of th ...

. It airs animated films and series as well as kids game shows and other young-oriented programmes. Before its launch, CCTV children's programs were broadcast on CCTV-7.

History

Test transmissions of the channel were started on 8 December 2003. Its first broadcast was made on 10 December 2003 with a duration of 16 hours. The channel was made available on UHF channel 33 in the Beijing area; most of the other CCTV channels (except

CCTV-1 CCTV-1 (CCTV General Channel) is the primary channel of CCTV, the national flagship terrestrial television network of the People's Republic of China. It broadcasts a range of programs from CCTV Headquarters at East 3rd Ring Road in Beijing and ...

and

CCTV-2 CCTV-2 is a Chinese free-to-air television channel operated by China Central Television in the People's Republic of China. The channel broadcasts programs on the business news, economic information, stock market data, business and industry economi ...

) were only available on cable and satellite television at the time. CCTV-14 was formally launched on 28 December 2003 as CCTV-Children and was split from CCTV-7. As of August 2006, when the government began enacting a ban on foreign-made animated series between 5 and 8pm taking effect from 1 September, most of its programming was produced in China; competing channels from local networks were more dependent on dubbed foreign programming, especially Korean, American and Japanese. On 1 January 2011, the channel was renamed to CCTV-14. Since 2013, CCTV-14 has aired the

CCTV New Year's Gala The ''CMG New Year's Gala'', formerly known as the ''CCTV New Year's Gala'', also known as the ''Spring Festival Gala'', and commonly abbreviated in Chinese as ''Chunwan'' (), is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Media Group (CMG). I ...

. In August 2019, the channel produced an adapted version of '' The Selfish Giant'', titled ''The Giants Garden'', a live musical phenomenon with a cast of nearly 300 of Shanghai's top child actors. It was presented in English instead of Mandarin and broadcast to all of the People's Republic of China. The show was met with acclaim, and aided in installing a yearly tradition of the channel producing a musical to be broadcast entirely in English with original music.

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* China Central Television channels Children's television channels in the Asia Pacific Television channels and stations established in 2003 2003 establishments in China {{China-tv-station-stub